lewismarktwo:Mazzic518: lewismarktwo: Mazzic518: marius2: I was going to post my signature to show you how beautiful it is with its squiggly lines, then I realized I probably don't want to have my signature released on the internet. I know how many of you like to right click now.

They disabled right click after the sombrero thread

Is that why everything is cached to fark.com now? I think I missed that thread. Seems pointless since you can just print screen anything you really want...

Mazzic518:lewismarktwo: Mazzic518: marius2: I was going to post my signature to show you how beautiful it is with its squiggly lines, then I realized I probably don't want to have my signature released on the internet. I know how many of you like to right click now.

They disabled right click after the sombrero thread

Is that why everything is cached to fark.com now? I think I missed that thread. Seems pointless since you can just print screen anything you really want...

BlippityBleep:Mazzic518: lewismarktwo: Mazzic518: marius2: I was going to post my signature to show you how beautiful it is with its squiggly lines, then I realized I probably don't want to have my signature released on the internet. I know how many of you like to right click now.

They disabled right click after the sombrero thread

Is that why everything is cached to fark.com now? I think I missed that thread. Seems pointless since you can just print screen anything you really want...

My signature is always different. It is the same basic structure, but there area always little variances within it.

If I ever get famous and start signing things, people are gonna have a hard time to determine if my stuff with my signature is real or not. Like, I watch Pawn Stars, and the handwriting guy is like "Well, we see this loop over here isn't exactly the same as his normal signature".

What the hell! Maybe he had an off day and it was a real signature.

Mine too. However, there are certain handwriting traits that everyone has, which don't change from time to time. It's these that are used to identify a signature as real or fake. Napoleon was infamous for changing his signature very frequently, however all of them still share common traits.

Mazzic518:lewismarktwo: Oh, you were trying a variation of the old 'social security number is blocked out with *********' joke...

But seriously, why is everything cached to fark now...

I think when threads get too big fetching all the images from all the different servers people post from slows the fark servers to a crawl.

/not in IT anymore//Stayed at a Holiday Express last night

Those slowdowns are client-side rather than server-side. All the HTML is loaded, it's just waiting for all of the different photobucket/imgur/facebook/whatever servers to respond with the images. It has more to do with not wanting images to break when people delete them. (like for Farktography and Photoshop threads). Plus, bandwidth and disk space are cheap nowadays.

Arachnophobe:YouSirAreAMaroon: I recently was asked for ID at Best Buy because the girl couldn't read the signature on the back of my credit card but I managed to convince her not to worry about it. She just handed me the receipt and I didn't even have to sign anything. WTF

*adjusts onion on belt* Back then, we CARED.

Igor Jakovsky: Mazzic518: tuffsnake: When you're left handed you learn young to hate writing by hand

Why?

Most school desks are right handed so you don't have the arm rest. You end up with pencil lead smudged all over your hand unless you keep the whole hand lifted off the paper. The wire on spiral notebooks is on the left side.

When I was in middle school I knew I would be a famous baseball player one day and so of course I would spend the majority of my time signing baseballs for my fans.I practiced my "baseball signature" for DAYS on end.

When I try to sign my name, it always looks different. A professional graphologist might be able to tell that they were written by the same person. But it disturbs me that when I sign something, it looks different than my signature on my Driver's License. So I sign official legal papers in script, but scribble the rest of the time.

I figure that my signature is mostly so that "they" can come back to me and ask that i verify that i signed something. I know what my scribble looks like, it's enough.Unless you're buying a house. Those mfers are serious about signatures.

Mazzic518:lewismarktwo: Mazzic518: lewismarktwo: Mazzic518: marius2: I was going to post my signature to show you how beautiful it is with its squiggly lines, then I realized I probably don't want to have my signature released on the internet. I know how many of you like to right click now.

They disabled right click after the sombrero thread

Is that why everything is cached to fark.com now? I think I missed that thread. Seems pointless since you can just print screen anything you really want...

SacriliciousBeerSwiller:The purpose of a signature is not unlike a fingerprint...it simply needs to be consistent. It doesn't need to be readable...that's what the "print your name" line is for.

Also should be hard to duplicate. Writing your name and signing your name are two entirely different things- one demands readability, one is intended to be a unique glyph that serves as a form of authentication.

The first name on my signature is generally readable. My last name never is. Receipts often just get initialed.

CSB: I worked on a document identification + reader software a few years ago where we had an excessive database of ID cards from all around the world. I mean hundreds and thousands of *real* cards scanned from various countries, not the just usual government-issued sample ID cards. I remember I went through all the Spanish ID cards one afternoon just because I was amazed by the signatures on them. They were AWESOME, each a piece of art or a WTF on a galactic scale. Spanish people perfected their signatures maybe because the limited variations of their names. There is one I still remember that almost made me cry, which looked like a stylized drawing of a farking galleon.

gunsmack:When I had to qualify an entire ship's company, 350 or so people, on three separate firearms, sign off on each qual for each weapon, sign off for a similar number of ribbons/medals for marksman/sharpshooter/expert, that's when my signature turned to an illegible scribble. Repeat every six months or so.

/ saves time and carpal tunnel

Yep. Signing for three meals every day for 4 years and signing every DA-2407 form for every piece of equipment that came across my repair bench and every piece that came across the bench of my subordinates and every piece that had to be evacuated and doing all that on a form that had 5 copies to press through. My squignature mine.

MissFeasance:Mine depends on what I'm signing. If it's an actual important document like a contract or something I use my nice signature. If it's a credit card receipt for a box of nails and a bottle of Diet Coke at Home Depot I'll just scribble something that vaguely resembles my initials. I still haven't quite worked out how to sign a capital cursive G. Like, I know how you're SUPPOSED to do it, but I'm still working on a personalized signature version.

My last name begins with G - I modeled mine on Edwardian Script ITC. My first name begins with C - I modeled that on on Coca Cola script. My gran used to make me practice penmanship every night for 30 minutes - but I still customized, even so.

In Latin American culture it's very common to have a signature that's very neatly written cursive, and as soon as they've nearly finished the last letter they scratch through the entire thing three or four times. Very forcefully too, because I've seen then tear the paper on several occasions. Anyone know why this is?

Hell, I rarely ever sign anything anymore, and when I do I usually just use my initials. But when I have to renew my drivers license I will sign my signature... which is each initial followed by a bumpy line.